Fire is an ancient technology that has helped shape human evolution. Our ancestors used fire for safety, cooking and ...

Many Australians discovered the country’s extraordinary birds during COVID. They’d always been there, but it seems we were ...

Coolgardie is a pioneering mining town that thrives in a historic shire known for one of Australia’s biggest gold rushes.

Using tools borrowed from human medical research, we found that male dolphins with stronger social bonds appear biologically younger than their less social counterparts. This means their bodies show ...

The Tully saucer nest heralded the start of the worldwide phenomenon of the modern crop circle. On a foggy morning in January 1966, George Pedley, a banana farmer from Euramo, near Tully in far north ...

But for David, Australia’s almost 100 species of native mistletoe are worth celebrating all year round. “We’ve got representations of lineages [of mistletoe] that date right back to Gondwana days. So, ...

This is absolutely everything you need to know about all of Australia’s possums and gliders. In the black of night, Australia’s 27 species of possum and glider scamper across our roofs, dart along ...

It’s whale season, so of course Migaloo has been spotted. Get to know the famous white whale. Here’s everything you need to know about Migaloo, the white whale: Many Australians discovered the country ...

As the natural world continues to take a hit from climate change, biodiversity loss and other human-induced changes, the Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year (AGNPOTY) competition ...

IT’S A SCENE THAT IS SO AUSTRALIAN. Deep in the bush amid towering eucalypts, the only noise is the screech of cockatoos and a ground-dweller rustling in the undergrowth. Large kangaroos appear ...

Did you know Victoria’s Yarra River (Birrarung) has legal status as a living entity? This has been the case since 2017 when, in response to lobbying by various community and Traditional Owner groups, ...

The red-bellied black is one of the Australia’s most commonly encountered snakes. If you live in one of the eastern mainland states and like bushwalking or even just live near urban bushland, chances ...